Alex Roarty

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RT @amyewalter: Republicans are enjoying a stronger Electoral College advantage than at any point in the 25-year history of the Cook PVI. I… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kathrynw5: In case you missed this jarring news last night: New York gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin survives attempted stabbi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChrisMegerian: "Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this. D… — PolitiTweet.org

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@polyrealism @julianrouth how do you get proof of that? — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateSilver538 i agree, though as I note later, it's not as if you'll always get a clear answer to your question. it's not some fact waiting to be dug up, so you and readers will have to live with some ambiguity (which, should be fine?) — PolitiTweet.org

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@julianrouth but then other Kirk staffers would say he always said inappropriate things and weren't sure it was really about the stroke. and neurologists would say there's no way of actually knowing what the root cause of it was — PolitiTweet.org

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@julianrouth maybe trickiest of all is if you're comfortable never actually knowing the effect. In Kirk's case, most everyone said other than physical limitations, he was the same ... except for a penchant to blurt out inappropriate comments. according to many of his old staffers, at least — PolitiTweet.org

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@julianrouth What's appropriate to ask about a candidate's mental faculties after a stroke? As one neurologist said to me, if you think those are pertinent questions, then shouldn't you also be pressing older lawmakers about their own mental acuity? Plenty of stroke victims recover to 100% — PolitiTweet.org

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@julianrouth it was an issue in the 2016 Illinois race, after then Sen. Mark Kirk was recovering from a stroke that, by most appearances, was more severe than the one Fetterman had. It raised some thorny questions for journalists and others at the time! https://t.co/VyGcGbEsqf — PolitiTweet.org

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Fetterman tells @julianrouth he's physically ready for a race, though acknowledges he sometimes struggles to hear and occasionally skips words when he talks https://t.co/jJO19l5sy6 not the first time a stroke has affected a Senate race in recent political history! — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredzannarbor but yes, on the whole, that's the issue for them: too far for many, not nearly far enough for others. it's all the current state of congress can allow but all anybody cares about are results — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredzannarbor i wouldn't expect it to be overwhelmingly popular, or even popular at all! but i figured they'd get *some* credit in the immediate aftermath of a genuine legislative breakthrough -- a chunk of voters like it when there's compromise -- and it would seem that is not the case — PolitiTweet.org

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it's sobering that the one thing lawmakers really do control -- the legislative process -- can have such a minimal impact on public perception. I think about this, too, when people talk about Biden and bipartisanship and the infrastructure law gets mentioned exactly zero times — PolitiTweet.org

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So Ds fought and clawed their way to a legislative victory not seen in decades, brought Rs on board and actually responded to a tragedy. And they were politically rewarded ... almost not at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats are better, but it's not overwhelming: 58% of them approve of Congressional Ds on the issue, while 37% disapprove. That's a rough result in a polarized electorate https://t.co/5P2YE7R3JF — PolitiTweet.org

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Just 27% approved of how Dems in Congress handled gun violence, compared to 65% who didn't. Not just Republicans, either: Only 21% of indies approve of how they've handled the issue, compared to 70% who disapprove https://t.co/5P2YE7RBzd — PolitiTweet.org

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A day late to this, but one cross-tab from yesterday's Q-poll that really drove home the Dems' political challenge. The party, ofc, just got the first major gun-violence bill over the finish line in almost three decades. So how did the public respond? ... — PolitiTweet.org

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@jon_m_rob @doeyjavis @carlosodio @mattsinger7 am weighing the prospect of returning to my defense-of-Harden glory days versus the real possibility that it could be a 130-tweet thread and i have work to do — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @will_doran: Breaking: NC Attorney General Josh Stein's 2020 campaign is facing a criminal investigation--which became public today when… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markzbarabak: NEW: All the talk of an alternative to Joe Biden in 2024 -- Gavin Newsom! J.D. Pritzker? -- ignores the fact Democrats al… — PolitiTweet.org

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More evidence that the Jan. 6 hearings have, in fact, damaged Trump's standing with a key group of voters (at least temporarily) https://t.co/b6bj6dKbQ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @politicoalex: NEW: Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has emerged as one of the biggest donors to a super PAC devoted to taking down Eric Grei… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: NEW: The GOP's long strategic silence on gay marriage is at an end. We genuinely have no idea how much R support marriag… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MiamiHerald: Val Demings announces she has COVID after speaking at Florida Democrats’ summer gala https://t.co/vD2BwUHYwu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cam_joseph: Michael Peroutka thinks public education is a communist plot & COVID response was a "hoax." He bankrolled Roy Moore. He was… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Redistrict: NEW: the entire decline in competitive House seats from redistricting is attributable to GOP gerrymanders (esp. TX and GA),… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mviser: Two Washington Post reporters were initially excluded from a Saudi media briefing. “Don’t kill me, I’m just the messenger," sa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KatieJ_Bernard: Kelly has placed much of her economic messaging on big economic development projects like Panasonic. But will that he… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oz had less than a million dollars on hand to end June, about a month and a half after the Pennsylvania primary ended, in a fundraising report that's pretty hard to fathom in an era of prodigious fundraising totals for most any candidate https://t.co/xEwm7WkNMD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahnferris: Dem Jim Himes says the talking points on Roe - just elect more Dems - aren't working. In caucus this week, he pushed an… — PolitiTweet.org